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  1. BigSlick
    I think Michael Penix is a good player but lol at spending the 8th overall pick on a 24 year old with 2 knee surgeries
  2. BigSlick
    If Odunze is gone by the time 9 comes around i dont hate trading down
  3. BigSlick
    Chances Odunze falls to the Bears increasing
  4. BigSlick
    I'm gonna laugh for 200 years if (as I expect) Daniels sucks and Maye is excellent and the Patriots are good for another 15 years
  5. BigSlick
    It'll be RGIII 2.0. Or RGVI
  6. BigSlick
    I think Washington just made a huge mistake here. Maye is the better prospect.
  7. BigSlick
    i feel like i've waited foreeeeeeever for the draft to finally arrive. and its gonna be a long 5 months until the season starts. but i'm pumped
  8. BigSlick
    well the cubs have had some really unfortunate luck to start the season with injuries and are still 14-9, so things could be worse here's hoping some of the young depth guys keep the offense afloat for a while
  9. BigSlick
    I wish every player coming off a rough stretch or an IL stint could come back and face the 2024 Marlins. The only other team I'd want to warm a pitcher up against would be the 2024 White Sox.
  10. BigSlick
    Poor Hendricks. I hope this isn't the end of the line for him. He's a great guy to root for. Nothing better than the guy without the best 'stuff' who succeeds on pure determination. The aging curve for guys like that usually isn't that graceful - they typically completely fall off a cliff at a certain point - but last year seemed to fight against that notion. In any case, he's not playing at a major league replacement level. He's actually far far below that. IL him for a while and see if there's anything that can be done.
  11. BigSlick
    And honestly, I don't think we can count on anything beyond one year with Keenan Allen, so we may as well stock up on WRs.
  12. BigSlick
    It'd make me happy if Hendricks still had one good year in him - he's the last of that magical 2016 team and I'm sentimental. It would be cool if he could bridge the gap of the tremendous mid-2010 teams with whatever's coming next.
  13. BigSlick
    Ultimately, its absurd to let individuals (or collections of individuals) own sports teams that are so intimately tied to specific cities and regions. Only the Green Bay Packers (I hate to say it) have it right (in the US at least, other countries have publicly owned professional sports teams) - they should be owned by the people of the areas they play in. Otherwise, they are subject to the fickle whims of some of the greedy and pitiless among us: billionaires.
  14. BigSlick
    damn. are the cubs like, really good? because that would be cool
  15. BigSlick
    It's not about how they're similar physically or whatever, they're similar in that they aren't good at throwing footballs Listen, it's whatever, we can't settle this debate for another 2-3 years, but I also do not believe he will be a good quarterback
  16. BigSlick
    I don't expect a stadium to be completed and open before like 2030
  17. BigSlick
    There's something weird happening re: the valuation of QBs in this draft, and it may be just the eyeball economy of clicks and attention, but there's all this talk about Jayden Daniels and JJ McCarthy and a concordant devaluation of Drake Maye. Maye is a way better prospect than those guys. He's kinda gotten squashed between the rightful attention that Caleb Williams has gotten and the rising interest in Daniels and McCarthy due to how their seasons ended but... there's no way in my mind anyone should feel disappointed in him as a prospect and he's not just a consolation prize. Dude can ball.
  18. BigSlick
    who cares
  19. BigSlick
    I'm not even really sure what connotation 'Hollywood' is supposed to carry. Is it that they're more interested in attention and optics than football? Is it some weird insinuation about sexuality?
  20. BigSlick
    I really like this article because I agree with 2 big points, and I'm almost shocked that they've become unpopular: JJ McCarthy has shown barely anything to justify the hype - the hype train for him is crazy. Maybe he's good, but I certainly haven't seen anything from him in games that have shown that to me. And if you don't see that in college football games why should I think that at the pro level? The man didn't even throw for a half in a meaningful conference game. What is happening!!! Jayden Daniels is a twig who will be ripped in half the second he steps on a pro football field. Less confident on but still in agreement: I also feel like Penix will surprise people. The health and age is a concern and will keep him, justifiably, being drafted highly. But he's also really good, and may give a team a nice 3 year peak of play if he stays healthy - exactly the kind of player that can spike some amazing play for a short period of time that would do great on a team drafting in the low 1st rounds. Honestly, if I was Minnesota this is exactly the kind of player I'd be looking for.
  21. BigSlick
    I think Kyle is fundamentally right about the QB stuff, and the point about Williams is quite strong: Even if he underachieves what we expect, and is on the lower range of what we grade his potential at, he'll likely be better than Fields and a serviceable QB on a team thats getting progressively more talented. That may not be a guy you want to guarantee 50 million for, but if he turns into Baker Mayfield (a disappointing return on the 1st overall), you can absolutely be a contender with that with the team as its building up. His ceiling is Mahomes and Rodgers. There's always a chance he turns into Jamarcus Russell, but thats simply the chance you gotta take in the NFL. I think Danny Parkins actually made a pretty insightful point about excessive Fields love: He was the sole exciting bright spot on a 2022 team that otherwise was just awful. He made a season that would have been a huge slog exciting and fun. That's a rare quality in a player, especially a Bears QB. And our fanbase has been so starved of good QB play that they fundamentally can't have a reasonable take on whats good or not good, or a sober thought about how to approach retaining or releasing a QB.
  22. BigSlick
    I think for a while now the Bears were only serious about building in Arlington Heights, which is fine - it made the most sense and they can do whatever they want, own the place, and not have to squabble with the city and park district. Arlington Heights will be fine and still get a lot of tax revenue from this thing (provided they don't give subsidies to building anything, god damn never do that)
  23. BigSlick
    If there is one of the top flight WRs there at 9, I *don't* want them to trade down. I think this is a year where it's ok if we only have 4 draft picks - sometimes you accumulate assets, sometimes you spend them. Poles has signaled this is where he envisions the window is opening with his moves. I appreciate that.
  24. BigSlick
    There's gonna be a lot of sturm and drang for the next 8 months, and we're gonna have to hear a lot of people being really stupid and angry. And, I expect, 4-5 games into the season, everyone will forget about it (because Caleb as a rookie will play at roughly the same or better level as Justin ever did and the team will be good)
  25. BigSlick
    A "better" offer may have been a 5th round pick, and they have a good reason not to lie here: Fields can confirm whether or not they ask him where he wanted to go. But assuming its real, and they passed on a 4th or better to do right by Fields, well, I wish my team was a little bit more cutthroat, lol
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